Editor
Panos Y. Papalambros
editor@asmejmd.org
Panos Y Papalambros, PhD, PE, is the Donald C. Graham Professor of Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He also holds faculty appointments in the College of Architecture and Urban Planning, and the School of Art and Design, He holds a diploma in mechanical and electrical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, and M.S. and PhD degrees in mechanical engineering from Stanford University. He has co-authored the textbook Principles of Optimal Design: Modeling and Computation (1988, 2000). He is a Fellow of ASME and SAE, and recipient of the JSME Systems and Design Achievement Award, ASME Design Automation, ASME Machine Design, and ASME Spira Outstanding Design Educator Awards.
Areas of interest: design optimization, design science
Assistant to the Editor
Connie Raymond-Schenk
assistant@asmejmd.org
Connie Raymond-Schenk received a degree in business from Northwood Institute in 1988 and is currently the Assistant to the Editor for the Journal. She has held professional and administrative positions at The University of Michigan since 1993. Prior to her arrival at the University she held a number of supervisory positions in the private sector.
Board
Janet Allen
associate editorJanet K. Allen, PhD is a Professor and John and Mary Moore Chair of Industrial Engineering at Oklahoma University. She received her SB degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, a Senior Member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and an Honorary Member of Pi Tau Sigma, the mechanical engineering honor society.
Areas of interest: systems design, robust design, intellectual foundations of design
Diann Brei
associate editorDiann Brei, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She received her BSE degree in Computer Systems Engineering and her Ph.D Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Arizona State University. She co-directs the General Motors/University of Michigan Smart Materials and Structures Collaborative Research Laboratory. She is the Technical Chair of the ASME Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems and past chair of the AIAA Adaptive Structures Technical Committee. She is an AIAA Associate Fellow and recipient of the Hartwell Award, Univ. of Michigan Ruth and Joel Spira Outstanding Teaching Award, and National Multiple Sclerosis Society DaVinci Award.
Areas of interest: device innovation, smart materials and structures, actuation
Jonathan Cagan
associate editorJonathan Cagan, Ph.D., P.E., is the George Tallman and Florence Barrett Ladd Professor in Engineering, in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, with appointments in the School of Design and Computer Science. At Carnegie Mellon, Cagan co-directs the Master in Product Development program and co-directs the Center for Product Strategy and Innovation. He is the co-author of Creating Breakthrough Products (with Craig Vogel) and The Design of Things to Come (with Craig Vogel and Peter Boatwright), and the co-editor of Formal Engineering Design Synthesis (with Erik Antonsson). He is the recipient of the engineering college’ Outstanding Research Award. Cagan is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and serves on the Advisory Board for The Design Society. Dr. Cagan received his Bachelor of Science in 1983 and Master of Science in 1985 from the University of Rochester, and his Ph.D. in 1990 from the University of California at Berkeley. All of his degrees are in Mechanical Engineering.
Areas of interest: product development, computational innovation, cognitive-based engineering
Thomas Chase
associate editorDr. Chase is a Professor and Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Chase received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1984. He is a past chair of the Design Engineering Division (2002-03), the Mechanisms Committee (1993-94), and the Design Engineering Technical Conference in 1994.
Areas of interest: mechanism synthesis, machine element design, hydraulics, the design of apparatus for high-energy physics experiments, database design for computer aided engineering
Wei Chen
associate editorDr. Wei Chen is a Wilson-Cook Chair Professor in Engineering Design at Northwestern University, in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. She received her Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology, M.S. from University of Houston, and B.S. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China), all in mechanical engineering. She is a Fellow of ASME, Associate Fellow of AIAA, and a member of SAE. She is an elected member of the ASME Design Engineering Division Executive Committee where she currently serves as the Technical Committee Chair. She is also an elected Advisory Board member of the Design Society, an international design research community. She serves as a review editor of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization and was the Associate Editor of the Journal of Engineering Optimization (2007-2009) and the ASME Journal of Mechanical design (2003-2006). She is the recipient of the ASME Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal achievement award (1998), the Intelligent Optimal Design Prize (2005), and the SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational award (2006).
Areas of interest: design under uncertainty, consumer choice modeling, decision making in design
Olivier de Weck
associate editorOlivier L. de Weck, Ph.D., dipl. Ing., is an Associate Professor of Engineering Systems and Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He obtained his degree in Industrial Engineering from ETH Zurich in 1993 and SM and PhD degrees in Aerospace Engineering from MIT in 1999 and 2001, respectively. His research focuses on understanding how complex man-made systems evolve over time and how we can design them to be more changeable while maximizing lifecycle value. Prof. de Weck has developed quantitative and implementable methods and tools that explicitly consider both changeability and commonality. Specific examples of such methods are Time-Expanded Decision Networks (TDN), the Delta-Design Structure Matrix (ΔDSM) and the Technology Infusion Analysis (TIA) process. He is an Associate Fellow of AIAA, and alswo serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets. He won two best paper awards at he 2004 INCOSE Systems Engineering conference, the 2006 Frank E. Perkins Award for Excellence in Graduate Advising at MIT, a 2007 AIAA Outstanding Service Award and the 2008 best paper award from the journal Systems Engineering. Since July 2008 he serves as Associate Director of the Engineering Systems Division at MIT, an academic unit with 53 faculty members and senior staff as well as approximately 440 graduate students.
Areas of interest: systems engineering, engineering change management, design structure matrix method, product families, platforms and commonality, strategic issues in design
Mary Frecker
associate editorMary Frecker is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. She has a B.S. from the University of Dayton, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan. When she joined Penn State in 1997, she was awarded the Pearce Endowed Development Professorship in Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Frecker has also been awarded the GM/Freudenstein Young Investigator Award by the ASME Mechanisms Committee (2002), the Outstanding Advising Award by the Penn State Engineering Society (2002), and the Outstanding Research Award by the Penn State Engineering Society (2005). She is a Fellow of the ASME. Dr. Frecker is an Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, and serves as Chair of the ASME Adaptive Structures Technical Committee. She is also a member of the ASME Mechanisms Committee.
Areas of interest: compliant mechanism design, medical device design, smart structures
John Gershenson
associate editorJohn K. Gershenson, PhD, is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Michigan Technological University and the director of the Product and Process Architecture Alignment Center and heads the center’s Life-cycle Engineering Laboratory. He also is the department’s Manufacturing/Industrial Area Director. Dr. Gershenson is a graduate of Cornell University and of the Ohio State University and holds a doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Idaho.
Areas of interest: product family design, product platforms, modular product design, assembly systems platforming, lean engineering, life-cycle design, lean manufacturing, and systems design for the environment
Ashitava Ghosal
associate editorAshitava Ghosal is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and a faculty member of the Centre for Product Design and Manufacture at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He obtained BTech, MS and PhD degrees in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, University of Florida at Gainesville and Stanford University, respectively. Prior to joining Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore he had research appointments at Carnegie Mellon University and at Integrated Systems, Inc., Santa Clara. He has authored the textbook Robotics: Fundamental Concepts and Analysis (Oxford University Press, 2006).
Areas of interest: robotics and multi-body mechanical systems, design of mechanical systems and product design
David Gorsich
associate editorDr. David Gorsich is the Chief Scientist of the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC). He is the organization's primary focal point to organizations such as DARPA and ARO, and serves as the technical director of the U.S. Army National Automotive Center. Previously Dr. Gorsich was the Director of Strategic Plans and Programs at TARDEC, and the Associate Director for Modeling and Simulation. As TARDEC's Associate Director for Simulation, he also was responsible for the Center's High Performance Computing program. Before 2003, Dr. Gorsich served as a research scientist in TARDEC's Robotics Lab as well as the leader of National Automotive Center's Vehicle Intelligence team. He received his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from M.I.T., his M.S. in applied mathematics from George Washington University, and his B.S. in electrical engineering from Lawrence Technological University.
Areas of interest: simulation, reliability-based design optimization, terrain modeling, spatial statistics and other approximation methods
Jeffrey Herrmann
associate editorJeffrey W. Herrmann is an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland, where he holds a joint appointment with the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Institute for Systems Research. He is the director of the Computer Integrated Manufacturing Laboratory and Associate Director for the University of Maryland Quality Enhancement Systems and Teams (QUEST) Honors Fellows Program. He is a member of INFORMS, ASME, IIE, SME, and ASEE. He has served as chair of the ASME Design for Manufacturing Technical Committee. He earned his BS in applied mathematics from Georgia Institute of Technology. As a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, he received his Ph.D. in industrial and systems engineering from the University of Florida.
Areas of interest: engineering design decision-making, design optimization, design for manufacturing, operations research
Yan Jin
associate editorYan Jin is Professor of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering at University of Southern California and Director of USC IMPACT Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. degree in Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering from the University of Tokyo. Prior to joining the USC faculty in 1996, he worked as a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Tokyo and as a Senior Research Scientist at Stanford University. He is the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award (1998), TRW Excellence in Teaching Award (2001), Best Paper in Human Information Systems (5th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, 2001), and Xerox Best Paper Award (ASME International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology, 2002). He also served as Conference Chair and Program Chair of the ASME Design Theory and Methodology (DTM) Conferences, and Vice Chair of the DTM Committee.
Areas of interest: design cognition, conceptual design method and technology, self-organizing and complex systems, and engineering collaboration
Michael Kokkolaras
associate editorDr. Michael Kokkolaras is an Associate Research Scientist at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Michigan. He also has an appointment at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute. Dr. Kokkolaras has a Diploma in Aerospace Engineering from Munich University of Technology (Technische Universitaet Muenchen) and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Rice University. Dr. Kokkolaras has conducted research for a number of projects funded by the U.S. Army, General Motors, Ford Motor Company, General Dynamics Land Systems, National Science Foundation, and Office of Naval Research, and co-authored numerous articles in archival journals and conference proceedings, as well as three book chapters. He is a member of the ASME (active within the Design Automation Committee) and a senior member of the AIAA (serving on the Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Technical Committee).
Areas of interest: multidisciplinary design optimization, decomposition and coordination methods, design under uncertainty, platform-based design of product families
Pierre Larochelle
associate editorPierre M Larochelle, PhD, PE, is the Assistant Dean for Academics & Accreditation and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Florida Institute of Technology. At Florida Tech he is the founder and director of the Robotics and Spatial Systems Laboratory (RASSL). He received his Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at San Diego (1989), his Masters of Science (1991) and Ph.D. (1994) degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Irvine. He has over 100 publications, is the holder of one US patent, and has served as a consultant to a number of companies in the areas of robotics, automation, machine design, and computer-aided design. He is a Fellow of ASME and a recipient of the MDI Mechanical Simulation Software Award.
Areas of interest: kinematics, robotics, mechanisms, machines, and design of robotic mechanical systems
Zissimos Mourelatos
associate editorZissimos P. Mourelatos, PhD is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Oakland University in Rochester, MI. Before joining Oakland University, he spent 18 years at the General Motors Research and Development (GM R&D) Center. He holds a diploma in Marine Engineering and Mechanical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, two M.S. degrees (Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering) from The University of Michigan, and a PhD degree (Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering) from The University of Michigan. He is active in the dynamics and vibrations as well as design automation communities. Dr. Mourelatos has published over 110 journal and conference publications in the areas of design under uncertainty and structural dynamics. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Reliability and Safety, an Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design and a SAE Fellow.
Areas of interest: design under uncertainty, probabilistic and non-probabilistic uncertainty theories, structural dynamics
Matthew Parkinson
special associate editorDr. Matt Parkinson is an Assistant Professor at Penn State University where he holds joint appointments in Engineering Design and Mechanical Engineering. He directs the Engineering Design Program and heads the OPEN Design Laboratory (www.dfhv.org). His research efforts focus on tools and methodologies for the design of artifacts which are robust to human variability (e.g., anthropometry, capability, and preference). He has received several teaching awards, SAE's Teetor Educational Award (2009) and Withrow Distinguished Presenter Award (2008), the ASME DETC "Best Paper Award" (2007) and SAE's Arch T. Colwell Merit Award for "Best Paper of the Year" (2003). He is a special associate editor for ASME's Journal of Mechanical Design and chairs the ASME Design Engineering Division's Student and Early Career Professionals Committee. Parkinson recently received a National Science Foundation CAREER award for activities redefining the foundations of designing for human variability.
Areas of interest: maintenance of the asmejmd.org tool, biomechanics, designing for human variability, ergonomics and aesthetics, optimization
Karthik Ramani
associate editorKarthik Ramani is a Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering and of Electrical and Computer Engineering (by Courtesy) at Purdue University. He earned his BTech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, an MS from the Ohio State University, and a Ph.D. from Stanford University, all in Mechanical Engineering. He has been recognized by Purdue University through a University Faculty Scholars Award (2002), Discovery in Mechanical Engineering Award (2005), College Research Excellence Award (2007). He serves on the Engineering Advisory Board for the National Science Foundation (Industrial Innovation and Partnerships) for 2007-10; and as advisor at Imaginestics, supplier of shape-based search engine for manufacturing supply chains.
Areas of interest: Digital and computational geometry, shape design and analysis, shape and ontology search, computational tools for early design innovation
José Rico
associate editorJose M. Rico is affiliated with the Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica at the Universidad de Guanajuato, Campus Irapuato-Salamanca since 2005. Previously he was affiliated with the Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica at the Instituto Tecnológico de Celaya. He received a BSc degree from the Instituto Tecnológico de Celaya and an MSc Degree from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, both in Mechanical Engineering. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Florida. He has been visiting scholar at Arizona State University, University of California-Davis, the French Institute of Advanced Mechanics, and the University of Florida. He has been an ASME member since 1975.
Areas of interest: theoretical and computational kinematics and applied mathematics
James P. Schmiedeler
associate editorJames P. Schmiedeler, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. He received the B.S. degree from the University of Notre Dame and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from The Ohio State University, all in mechanical engineering. He was previously an Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa (2002-2003) and at The Ohio State University (2003-2008). In 2002, he was a summer faculty research fellow at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, and in 2007, he was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) for his work in modeling human motor coordination and robot-assisted rehabilitation.
Areas of interest: machine design, robotics, biomechanics
Timothy W. Simpson
associate editorTimothy W. Simpson, Ph.D., is a Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University in University Park, PA. He also holds faculty appointments in the School of Engineering Design, Technology, and Professional Programs and the College of Information Sciences and Technology. He received a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Cornell University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the lead editor on the book Product Family and Product Platform Design: Methods and Applications (2005). He is an Associate Fellow of AIAA and is active in ASME and ASEE. He is the recipient of a NSF Career Award, SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award, AIAA Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Technical Committee Outstanding Service Award, and the Pennsylvania State University President’s Award for Excellence in Academic Integration.
Areas of interest: product family design, product platforms, metamodeling, visualization
Avinash Singh
associate editorAvinash Singh, PhD, is an Engineering Group Manager – Advanced Torque Converters & Gear Systems, in the Advanced Power Transfer Group of GM Powertrain, General Motors Corporation. He received his B. Tech. degree from the Institute of Technology, BHU, India in 1990, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Ohio State University in 1992 and 1997. Dr. Singh works on power transmission component technology and his research interests are in the areas of gear system design and analysis, dynamics and noise, development and validation of high fidelity models, power losses, rotating system diagnostics, and fatigue life prediction. He currently serves as the Vice Chair of the ASME Power Transmission and Gearing committee of the DED.
Areas of interest: transmission component design and analysis, model development and validation
Alexander H. Slocum
associate editorAlexander H. Slocum is the Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Alex has written two books on machine design Precision Machine Design and FUNdaMENTALs of Design (free download on http://pergatory.mit.edu), published more than 150 papers, and has seven dozen+ patents issued/pending. Alex regularly works with companies on the development of new products and has been significantly involved with the invention and development of 11 products that have been awarded R&D 100 awards. Alex is a Fellow of the ASME and the recipient of the Society of Manufacturing Engineer’s Frederick W. Taylor Research Medal, ASME Leonardo daVinci Award, and the ASME Machine Design Award.
Areas of interest: machine elements, precision machine design, MEMs
Janis Terpenny
associate editorJanis Terpenny, PhD is a Professor of Engineering Education and Mechanical Engineering and an affiliate faculty of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech. She is the Director of the Center for e-Design, a 5-university NSF industry/university cooperative research center. She is an Advance Professor and Diggs Teaching Scholar at Virginia Tech and a Dean’s Faculty Fellow in the College of Engineering. Formerly, she was an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and has prior industrial work experience with the General Electric (GE) Corporation, including the completion of a two-year corporate management program. She received a BS degree in Applied Mathematics from Virginia Commonwealth University, an MS degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, and a PhD degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech. She is a member of ASME, ASEE, and senior member of IIE.
Areas of interest: design process and methods, knowledge engineering, product families and platforms, product obsolescence, student learning and engagement related to design education
Kwun-Lon TING
associate editorKwun-Lon Ting is a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department and the Center for Manufacturing Research at Tennessee Tech University. He has a BS degree from National Taiwan University, a MS degree from Clemson University, and a PhD degree from Oklahoma State University. During his tenure at Tennessee Tech, he received eight research grant awards from the National Science Foundation, the Caplenor Faculty Research Award from the university, and the Kinslow Engineering Research Award twice from the engineering college. He is the recipient of the South-Pointing Chariot Award and Bernard Roth Award from Applied Mechanisms and Robotics Conference. He is a Fellow of ASME.
Areas of interest: kinematics, mechanisms, robotics, linkage mobility, geometric design
Philippe Velex
associate editorPhilippe Velex graduated from INSA Lyon (France) in 1984 with Meng. in Mechanical Engineering. He obtained his PhD from the same establishment in 1988. He was appointed Full Professor of Mechanical Engineering in 1998. He is head of the 'Mechanical Systems and Contact' research group of LaMCoS (INSA Lyon) and director of the CETIM-INSA joint laboratory on Mechanical Transmissions. His research topics comprise the analysis of interactions between lubricated contacts and the static and dynamic behavior of mechanical systems. He is also the director of the International English-Speaking Undergraduate Section at INSA Lyon.
Areas of interest: gear dynamics, power losses, loads and stresses, lubrication in gears
Hong-Sen YAN
associate editorDr. Hong-Sen Yan is an NCKU Chair Professor at the National Cheng Kung University (Tainan, Taiwan) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He also serves as the Director of the NCKU Museum. He holds a B.S. degree from the National Cheng Kung University, M.S. degree from the University of Kentucky, and Ph.D. degree from Purdue University, all in mechanical engineering. He is the author of two Springer books Creative Design of Mechanical Devices (1998) and Reconstruction Designs of Lost Ancient Chinese Machinery (2007). He is a Fellow of ASME, and recipient of ASME Best Paper Award (Mechanism Conference) and National Chair Award (Ministry of Education, Taiwan, ROC). And, he collects ancient Chinese padlocks as a hobby.
Areas of interest: kinematics, conceptual design of mechanisms and machines, reconstruction design of ancient machinery
Bernard Yannou
associate editorBernard Yannou is a Professor of Industrial and Mechanical Engineering and co-director of the Industrial Engineering Laboratory of Ecole Centrale Paris, France. He received a M.S. (1988) in Mechanical Engineering from Ecole Normale Supérieure of Cachan (ENSC), a M.S. (1989) in Computer Science from Paris-6 University, and a Ph.D. (1994) in Industrial Engineering from ENSC. He directs the Innovative System Design and Development last-year Minor curriculum and directs the M.S. in Industrial Engineering of Ecole Centrale Paris. He has conducted research for a number of industrial companies: Dassault Systemes, Renault, Schlumberger, Johnson Controls, Airbus, Eurocopter, Snecma. He has supervised 15 Ph.D. theses in design engineering. He is member of the ASME for which he serves as an international liaison of IDETC, and a member of the Design Society. He was in 2008 the coordinator of a French handbook on design in 3 volumes “La conception industrielle de produits”.
Areas of interest: design science, design automation, artificial intelligence in design, design under uncertainty, decision-based design, system thinking, innovation management
Editors that recently completed terms
Shapour Azarm
past associate editorShapour Azarm, Ph.D., P.E., is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland (UMD), College Park. He holds a faculty appointment with the Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computation Program at UMD. He has B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees, all in mechanical engineering, from the University of Tehran, George Washington University, and the University of Michigan, respectively. He is the past chair of the ASME Design Automation Conference, Design Automation Committee, and Design Engineering Division. He is the recipient of the 2007 Design Automation Award. He is a Fellow of ASME.
Areas of interest: multi-objective optimization, multi-disciplinary optimization, sensitivity analysis, approximation, multi-attribute decision making
Larry Howell
past associate editorLarry L. Howell, PhD, PE, is a Professor and past chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Brigham Young University (BYU), where he holds a University Professorship. Prof. Howell received his B.S. degree from Brigham Young University and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Purdue University. Prior to joining BYU in 1994 he was a visiting professor at Purdue University, a finite element analysis consultant for Engineering Methods, Inc., and an engineer on the design of the YF-22 (the prototype for the U.S. Air Force F-22). He is a Fellow of ASME and past chair of the ASME Mechanisms & Robotics Committee. Prof. Howell’s patents and technical publications focus on compliant mechanisms and microelectromechanical systems. He is the author of the book Compliant Mechanisms published by John Wiley & Sons.
Areas of interest: compliant mechanisms, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) design